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About Farhana Jacobs

Farhana Jacobs is a mixed media artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Her work explores femininity, motherhood, mysticism and the ordinary.

It concerns itself with the relationship women have with their surroundings, with themselves, and how they navigate hostile external structures of patriarchy and limiting belief systems. In her work, women’s bodies are often presented as a terrain of contestation – as landscapes upon which these hostile surroundings and contexts are re-purposed and re-imagined.

EXHIBITIONS

Stevenson (group) - “When Works Meet”, Cape Town, December 2024 - February 2025

FNB Art Jhb (Stevenson), Johannesburg, September 2024

Gallery MOMO (group) - “Forwomen”, Johannesburg, August 2024

Stevenson (solo) - “Homecoming”, Cape Town, March 2024

Gallery 2 (solo) - “Imprints”, Johannesburg, October 2023

Latitudes Online (group) - “Reshape 22-Future Art Histories”, online, September-October 2022

Turbine Art Fair - Johannesburg, July 2022

Bubblegum Club (group) - “Re-imaged” Bubblegum gallery, Johannesburg, July 2022

Turbine Art Fair Paper (group) - Victoria Yards, Johannesburg, May - June 2022

Turbine Art Fair Paper (group) - Design Joburg, May 2022

AFRICA.NXT art pavilion (NFT art group) - Lagos Nigeria, February 2022

The Point of Order (group) - as part of the “Rapture Institute” curated by Zara Julius, September 2019

RELATED PRESS

Currency News Online - “Art of the week: ‘When Works Meet’ at Stevenson Gallery”

Art Network Africa Online - “Gallery MOMO Presents ‘FOREWOMEN’ in Honour of Women’s Month”

Latitudes Online - “Interview with Farhana Jacobs”

Rosebank Gazette article “ First solo exhibition for Farhana Jacobs at Gallery 2”

IOL Article - “LOOK: Joburg women-centric artists eye top honours at inaugural art award which seeks to recognise female artists in SA”, August 2022